Full Interview (2012) with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad

[Muzz]

46 Minutes Full Interview President Bashar al-Assad with Barbara Walters from ABC News

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For anyone in two minds about what is really going on in Syria, and whether President Assad, hailed a decade ago as “A Modern Day Attaturk”, has become the latest megalomaniacal despot, to whose people a US-led posse of nations, must deliver “freedom”, with weapons of mass, home, people, nation and livelihood destruction, here is a salutary tale from modern history.

Have the more recent sabre rattlings against Syria* been based on US-UK government papers, only discovered in 2003 - and since air brushed (or erroneously omitted) from even BBC timelines, on that country?(i)

source -
SYRIA: CIA-MI6 Intel Ops and Sabotage (http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=29126)

[treeman]

Thank you very much for this post.
Raised some great points -

* al-Sassad is not a puppet
* UN is not a credible organisation (Anyone who disagrees with this statement should pull their head out of the *rse)
- organisation located in the USA, heavily funded by the USA, with agendas for the USA e.g Iraq
*Syria has been involved with embargoes, relations and negotiations for a number of years with their neighbours.

Fight the good fight....didn't hear about the Arab league leaked document??

[Muzz]

Hi treeman

I thought he did very well to keep his composure considering the aggressive and biased stance of the reporter. Many of the questions were loaded and he did not entertain them. My gut feeling watching this was that he is a good man.

[Zampano]

Yes Muzz

I think the same way.
For me it was worth sharing this interview on a well known social site to provide people the other side of the coin.
Which they dont hear/see that often in the media.

And there are many colours between white and black.

[Tony]

Does Bashar Assad, President of Syria seem evil to you?


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Full Text:
http://on.rt.com/4sugfx
http://rt.com/news/assad-interview-exclusive-syria-265/

[Tony]

Would the western media interview him, or allow him to speak. We are having the wool pulled over our eyes at ever moment. Over a year ago I heard a Syrian man saying, "There are people here who are not Syrian, and they are shooting at both sides...why?"

[seko]

He doesn't seem evil. He sounds like a very well educated man and if the ptb want him out of power or Syria then he must be against tptb and can not be as evil as them.

RT seems to be a very western media corporation.

If you see people that aren't Syrian fighting and shooting at anyone the must be trying to confuse everybody, create chaos so that tptb bring their lying puppets to put them in power just like in Lybia....

[Flash]

RT is based in Russia

[Tony]

RT is based in Russia




Sure they are a little bias, but we need to be open....Max Keizer is the man!

[AutumnW]

Another Max Keiser fan! Watch him weekly. I don't trust the opinions generated by Western media and politico's. Look at the job they did on Hugo Chavez, a popularly elected official. Assad could be surrounded by bad men and may be a bad man himself. But...that is entirely beside the point. Look at the Saudi royal family and psychopaths like Netanyahu--they are never framed in the same way, because they serve the interests of the Anglo/American axis of weevils.

[mescalitto]

Evil ? An odd question to me as 'Good' and 'Evil' are religious concepts, merely words for right and wrong that allow governments to (In their opinion) legitimately start wars and bring hatered among not only us as individuals but between nations and races. Do you mean does he have a hidden agenda? Well..... hes a politician isnt he? there for.................

[avid]

So frustrating - Assad has been pillioried for ages now in MSM, not the best of leaders, but the de-stabilisation of a nation via duplicity is the 'calling-card' of the military-industrial-complex needing access to 'resources'..... Hello Yemen/Libya/Egypt/Turkey/lots of African and way-out Eastern Ex-Russian countries via corruption (selling their assets from under the bare feet of their 'slave' populous). Obama is still at it's helm....??? Shut up Yetanyahu and your ilk, let's stop the global greed for awhile to reflect as the global-pop is now so aware of what's really going on! Until Patrick Geryl's percentage is almost perfect in December...!!! Charity begins at home from now on....

[Deega]

Thanks Tony, before answering, I would love to know, in your definition of ''evil'', do you see particular characteristics in face, body, expression, comments...?, apart from knowing that he is responsible for so many deaths of his people.

We know that the Syrian System (Army, Royal Family, others) of Government want to keep on going with control, abuses, those who apposed the system. We also know that he is only a small actor (decision wise, I think that the Generals run the show, I may be wrong though!) in Syria Civil War. We also know that there is different religious dominations in Syria, and Assad is part of one, can't remember their name, that hold him in power. And there is so many things that we know of Syria that we are influenced to start with.

So, at first glance, if one wouldn't know that he is responsible of this war, one couldn't say that he is any evil than any one else, would you say.."!, but in knowing all that is behind him, I would tend to say that his actions are ''evil'' against his people!

All the best to everyone.

[Flash]

Assad does not look like a bad guy, but RT is surely the only platform he could have to reach the westerners.

True, all the Middle East is being destablized by terrorists

Terrorists are sometimes supported by the West for destabilisation purpose.

And nobody really knows who is for true and who is not. All these leaders have done some good for their countries and some bad as well for the individuals (just thinking of ex Lybian leader, he took a country of herdmen living in tents and brought it up to todays standards of education in the developed world, he developed an inexistent agriculture to something flourishing, he has free medicare for all, free schooling, etc, and he did not want to bend under western views, however, on individual and some collective bases, he was a real bast ard as well, klling around etc.)

[avid]

Muammar Gaddafi did not subscribe to the banksters, wanted only to exchange in gold. His country was well-off, free education globally, no mortgages, free sophisticated health care, a great agricultural system and a self-sufficient country. Every country not kow-towing to the banksters has been systematically trashed. Cuba was supposedly 'free' until the latest Mit Romney scenario whereas they have laundered drug monies for years - useful idiots. Thanks to Veterans Today on blowing that apart! Chavez has resisted the banksters for years, and hopefully still will! Destabilisation of Equador in progress via the CIA and Chile still in progress.... North Korea...???? At least we are aware of these globalistic corporate-controlled machinations now, and Obama is just a pawn. Solution? Withdraw any support for your 'government' via local group actions. Your individual states have their own laws now - most recently health care and marijuana-related laws. If you can grow your own marijuana you can be potentially cancer-free!!!

[Ernie Nemeth]

No, he does not look or act evil, Tony.

[Tony]

These are some comments from TV press about Thursdays interview:

Syrian
Nov 10, 2012 7:41
"Some people say, there was a "civil war" going on in Syria - initiated by protests against the regime. This is a lie. and it has already proved being a lie for about 19 months. Why do I want to focus on this? I am Syrian citizen, living in Syria. I was born 1973 in Tyre (Sour) / Lebanon and raised in Lebanon during the civil war from 1973 to 1984. War in Lebanon started in 1975 when I had been 2 years old, so I became eye-witness to this war for about 9 years. And, yes, that was a war of different interest groups fighting each other and together fighting the Lebanese nation. A civil war orchestrated and funded by Israel, the USA, Europe and other parties. This is to ensure you: I know very well what a CIVIL WAR is like. Protesters who gathers outside mosques and called for Assad to resign and - soon - for violence, had been organized and funded by al.Qaeda-linked groups - we call them the payed weekend-protesters - and laughed about them.
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Far.bod
Nov 10, 2012 7:5
Every decade the West tries to rule ME, Muslims and oil-rich countries deeper and deeper using different methods. Nowadays the West needs a new "democratic!" ME governments to do their plots in a new dress.In fact there is no difference between Egypt before and after Mubarak, or Yemen or Tunisia etc.Us seeks to spark protests and repeat the "Arab Spring!!" in Syria, but they faced a tough resistance by Assad's government and his loyal supporters.
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Long Live Assadin reply to Far.bod
11/10/2012 7:20:04
very well said brother!!! I know deep in my heart that almighty Allah will respond to the West's satanic plots with true justice and through this, they will get what they REALLY deserve
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He is a Brave Man
Nov 10, 2012 6:52
He has no match therefore there will be no foreign intervention.
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2cents
Nov 10, 2012 6:22
Per NDAA, anyone supporting terrorists must be disappeared. Maybe the US gov will make itself go away.
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ZANZIBARIAN
Nov 10, 2012 4:9
Dr. Ismail -coloumnist SALAMI Your article is the most fact have been told, but INSHA-ALLAH GOD WILL ALWAYS HELP SYRIANS against these WAHABIS/SALAFIS
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UNITED MUSLIM
Nov 10, 2012 3:17
IS THESE KIND OF SALIFI WICH SELL THERE RELIGION AND PEOPLE IN GETTING FREE GUNS IN MAKING TERRORISM PAVING THE WAY FOR ISRAHELL AND ALLIES TO ATTACK SYRIA AFTER WARDS. SALIFI LEADERS SHOULD BE CAUGHT AND BROUGHT TO EXECUTION.
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US Citizen
Nov 10, 2012 2:54
Ultimately the scum behind this: Obama, Biden, Clinton etal are war criminals of the worst order.They must be brought to justice, convicted and spend the remainder of their days in small cells pondering their misdeeds.Failing that: SHOOT TO KILL! Give them no quarter and no haven. They are fair game for all justice minded people worldwide.
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Wars based on big lies
Nov 10, 2012 12:16
thats US of Terror's stinking new world order. project for a new world genocide, while zio-lie media brainwashes their public into a comatose state.
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birdonawire
Nov 9, 2012 11:38 PM
the respect and loyalty Syrian People bestow on Assad is not for nothing - good governance via Assad earned him the Peoples' respect - something the ' west ' and dictator leaders will never know.
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chris1
Nov 9, 2012 11:20 PM
As we all know the terrorist group called Al Queda was created and is funded to this day by the American government and Israel.Terrorist groups like this are created to be set upon countries of the world to provide a pretext for endless American government invasion under the guise of fighting terrorist.The reality is the American government and Israel are completely behind all these terrorist in Syria,Libya,Tunsia,Egypt etc and everyone in the whole world knows it.What is happening in Syria is the definition of war crimes and the goal is to overthrow the rightful Syrian government so a puppet government can be installed and controlled by the American government and Israel.The people of Syria have remained strong and united and this is the key to breaking the plans of the American/Israel government.When people are united it makes it much harder for the American/Israel government to use their primary weapon which is divide and conquer.
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deepthiin reply to chris1
11/10/2012 4:18:06
The US and its allies are the BIGGEST TERRORISTS IN THIS PLANET, and yet they have the nerve to call other people who have nothing to do with terrorism, as terrorists. AL QAEDA,which is one of their many by products is the ENEMY of the Muslims.They have brought nothing but harm, hardship,terror and humiliation to the Muslims of this world.
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Black September
Nov 9, 2012 11:5 PM
Syria and Bashar Al Assad are dignity of all Arab World!
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Jimmy
Nov 9, 2012 11:2 PM
Assad has support of 90[[]%] Syrians that's the Reason he has so far survived against Biggest Form of Terrorism from US, Turkey, Israel, Qatar, UK, Saudi Arabia, France, Al-Qaida, CIA, Muslim Brotherhood, Mossad, Wahhabis, MI6, Salafis, French Intelligence, Jordan, FSA, Blackwater/XE,SNC, Death Squads. The Insurgents/Rebels are none of them Syrians but from Countries as far as China, Chechnya, Libya, Algeria, Pakistan, Afghanistan,Bangladesh, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Egypt, Iraq and Elsewhere. It is a Miracle that President Assad survived against so many Enemies. God Bless President Assad. Long Live Brave Syrian Defense Forces who are defending their country, sovreignty and secularism against daily Car Bombings, Executions, Terrorist Attacks and Suicide Bombings.
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Jalal
Nov 9, 2012 10:57 PM
The new colonialism is using sectarianism as before to destroy and desplace innocent people.The head of the opposition parties outside the country should be targetted if possible or brought into justice.These are crimes in any human or any religious terms.
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chriz
Nov 9, 2012 10:23 PM
i'm thinking about nine eleven which was the stage of the world since ww2 these mega thinkers and planners that cause these planned wars for global change, for there future benefit are bringing us all back to al-Qaeda an other front which is totally a fake twist of western thinkers. for most of us to believe war on terror the lie of our history they'll bring that back to invade Syria but me and a lot of others know it ain't going work this time but we have sick people that do these things on us.
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Kindness 4 Weakness
Nov 9, 2012 9:37 PM
Zionist were given best Weapons by Amerika while Arabs who just escaped Colonialism had not Advanced Army, but Today is not the Yesterday, 2006 was a small taste and the Recent Drone Strike was just TIP of the ICEBERG, Terrorism has failed in Syria and is only a matter of time before the Army clean up, but in conventional Warfare Syria would destroy Israel and Obliterate Turkey/NATO.
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Ali
Nov 9, 2012 9:15 PM
We can lay charges right at the feet of Barack Obama, The Bush Family, Hillary and Bill Clinton, Benjamin Netanyahu, John McCain, the petro-dollar sheikhs, and all of their assets for their terrorist war on Syria, Libya, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Bahrain, and all of humanity. The people of the planet must rise up and bring them to justice. Nothing less will do at this critical hour.
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[Fructedor]

An article from the Voltaire Network

http://www.voltairenet.org/

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The Chinese Solution
> by Thierry Meyssan
>
> There is a solution for peace in Syria. All we need is the will to implement it. Yang Jiechi has imagined a way of avoiding France's hostility to the implementation of the Geneva agreement.
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> > The truce that was intended to mark the celebrations for the Muslim feast of the Aid was massively broken in Syria. The government had taken care to block the main roads in order to ensure that any incidents would remain isolated and would not spread. It was a waste of time – a number of brigades of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) had received orders from their sponsors to launch a series of new attacks, and the Syrian Arab Army did not fail to respond. As a result, although certain regions were able to enjoy four days of relative peace, the final assessment at the national level is particularly disppointing.
> > Whether the truce was a success or a failure therefore depends on where you live. At the diplomatic level, it allows us to evaluate the difficulties that the peace forces will encounter when the Security Council decides to deploy them. The first is the absence of a representative spokesman for the FSA – the second is France's duplicity.
> > The FSA is composed of a number of armed groups, each of which obeys its own logic. The whole organisation is supposed to obey a central command which is implanted at a NATO base in Turkey. But this is no longer the case, ever since the emergence of bitter rivalry between the different sponsors – France, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. Each group dedicates more effort to expanding their influence to the detriment of their allies than to overthrowing the regime. The basic brigades obey the groups who directly finance them, and pay no further attention to NATO coordination. Besides this, despite all declarations, the fighters in Syria have never been subordinated to the political councils who meet in Paris, Istanbul and Cairo.
> > Western leaders are continually calling for a unified FSA command, but in reality, they are afraid of it. Because while unification would provide an interlocutor for peace discussions, it would also discredit and replace the foreign political councils. It would therefore no longer be possible to hide the true nature of this pseudo « revolution » - none of the armed groups are fighting for democracy, and the vast majority of them intend to impose a Sunnite religious dictatorship.
> > A « Central Command of Syrian Revolutionary Councils » has just been created in Idlib, and it has been approved by about 80% of the FSA forces. It recognises as its spiritual leader Sheikh Adnan al-Arour, who gave a speech on this occasion. Reading a moderate text, whose style was very different from his usual declarations, he praised his listeners for the creation of the central military command, and called for the unification of the three rival foreign political councils, and also for the constitution of a legislative council. This of course means the transfer of legislative power to religious authorities - of which he would humbly accept the leadership – with the aim of imposing charia. He also reminded his listeners that the prime objective of the « revolution » is not to overthrow the institutions but rather the principles of the regime, in other words, secularism and Arab nationalism.
> > At this point, it must be noted that while the FSA numbers very few Syrian combatants, it has the support of several million civilians, particularly in the North of the country. However, in the various demonstrations which have been organised, the demonstrators have never brandished the portraits of exiled political leaders (Buhran Ghalioum, Abdulbaset Sieda, etc.), but have often chanted the name of Sheikh Al-Arour. They have also notably used his slogans, such as « Christians to Beirut! Alaouites to the grave! » The Syrians who support the FSA do not want democracy, but are calling for a Saudi-style dictatorship, which would cleanse Sunnism of its Sufi elements, and repress all religious minorities.
> > In order to succeed, the truce should have been negotiated by Lakdhar Brahimi, the special envoy of the UN and the Arab League, and Sheikh Adnan Al-Arour. But such an encounter would have marked the end of the dream of the « Arab Spring », and revealed the fact that the West is financing and arming the most extreme forms of religious sectarianism.
> > The second obstacle to the deployment of a peace-keeping force by the Security Council would be French intransigeance. Paris is blocking the implementation of the agreement which was signed on the 30th of June in Geneva. The text drawn up by Kofi Annan is deliberately vague on certain points, which enables the major powers to sign it and then postpone the resolution of any remaining contradictions. Since that date, Washington, Moscow and Beijing have come to an agreement, but Paris persists in remaining aloof.
> > The question is which Syrian opposition has the legitimacy to participate in a political transition, and what would be the nature of this transition. For France, it's obvious that the Syrian National Council, whose abundantly subsidized members are presently living in Paris, must form the hard core of the next government. For Moscow and Beijing, however, those politicians who supported armed action and called for foreign intervention are unworthy of their country, and the only legitimate actors are the opposition forces who have defended the independence and sovereignty of their nation. For France, the prime concern is to organise transition between a Syria governed by Bachar el-Assad (without Total), and a Syria without el-Assad (but with Total). For Moscow and Beijing, the transition must consist of moving beyond the current situation of division and civil war to a state of national unity and peace. As for Washington, they are prepared to make concessions as long as the situation is resolved quickly and a regional flare-up is avoided.
> > Drawing from lessons learned during the Aid ceasefire, China has just proposed an original solution. Instead of presenting a plan orchestrated by political stages, it has imagined the possibility of solving the problem region by region. This procedure would make it possible to inverse the current process of expanding conflict and, on the contrary, to reduce the war zones. This solution is in everyone's interest, but is in direct opposition to French strategy – speaking at the UN General Assembly, president François Hollande asked for a Security Council mandate on the « liberated zones. » Paris is entertaining nostalgic dreams of the mandate awarded to France by the League of Nations, which legitimized its conquest of Syria (1920-1946). And have they not already managed to influence the « revolutionaries » to adopt the flag of colonisation?
> > In a speech at the National University of Singapore, Kofi Annan underlined the fact that the responsability for the current situation rests on the shoulders of certain Western states – they hijacked the Security Coucil mandate for the protection of the population of Libya and transformed it into an operation for changing the el-Kadhafi regime. Today, they refuse to condemn terrorism, and are pushing the Syrian population to martyrdom in the hope of finding the opportunity to overthrow the el-Assad regime.
 

[Carmody]

Would the western media interview him, or allow him to speak. We are having the wool pulled over our eyes at ever moment. Over a year ago I heard a Syrian man saying, "There are people here who are not Syrian, and they are shooting at both sides...why?"

US black ops, CIA and oil cartels, and the federal reserve crew..trying to make sure that they control ALL oil in the middle east. they will kill anything and anyone that gets in their way of choking and controlling the world's 'airpipe' of life and development.

The Syrian deal with the Russians is what set this whole thing off.

[haibane]

I gave up on judging people just by their media appearances long time ago. I know one thing about Assad's Syria though: out of all the countries where Kurds live, Syria is the only one where they aren't persecuted for speaking their own language. By the way most of the Turks I met in the UK turned out actually being Kurdish and all of them only spoke Turkish (one was taking Kurdish classes though).

It's too hard to say anything about any country's leader unless you live in that country at least for a bit and don't understand the language - many people from Asia who don't know jack about WWII think about Hitler that yes, he must have been quite a bastard to some, but hey, look at that awesome highway network he had built. I don't believe half of the Gaddafi's evil deed stories in the media, but then again in this world you don't achieve such level of power and keep it for decades by being nice to everyone.

Does it make sense?

[Prodigal Son]

Evil is all relative among these world leaders. Personally, I'd feel much more relaxed and comfortable having Assad or Ahmadinejad staying in my guest room than Dick Cheney, Karl Rove or Richard Perle.

[CdnSirian]

Removed by poster - better elsewhere.

[treeman]

No....The problem is or appears to be, 'He's not a Puppet'.
Intellectual comes to mind.
Cheers.

[Mu2143]

Just turn it off ,the media is all about control and programing all what your seeing is the aganda moving forward.

[161803398]

"Terrorism" when it comes from the mouths of the American politicians is illogical and getting crazier. I am old enough to remember that in the past when people had wars with each other, the other side was allowed to fight back. Years ago, when I was talking to a guy just back from Iraq, he was telling me how horrible the fighting was and I asked him who he was fighting in Iraq. Was it the Iraqi army? and he said "the terrorists, of course". Well, my mouth dropped open. Later on in the conversation he started talking about how someone had come into his house that he didn't invite and they'd had an altercation. He said next time he would kill anyone who came into his house uninvited. The illogic is mind numbing. If that isn't crazy enough, now we have poor innocent drones, just minding their business being attacked by mean, nasty fighter jets.

[Flash]

Would the western media interview him, or allow him to speak. We are having the wool pulled over our eyes at ever moment. Over a year ago I heard a Syrian man saying, "There are people here who are not Syrian, and they are shooting at both sides...why?"

US black ops, CIA and oil cartels, and the federal reserve crew..trying to make sure that they control ALL oil in the middle east. they will kill anything and anyone that gets in their way of choking and controlling the world's 'airpipe' of life and development.

The Syrian deal with the Russians is what set this whole thing off.


And the Iranians as well. They threw the US and Western oil companies out in the 80's no wonder Israel and USA wants to make war overthere. They were selling to Russia and getting Russina technologies. In rubbles.

Lybia was a lot with China. We know what happened.

Turkey has no oil, so they will be left in peace I presume (unless they are needed as pions for fighting US/israel war).

[Atlas]

How to handle biased media with Truth - Bashar Al-Assad interview highlights
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[Atlas]

Assad interview 4/13/2017:
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[Dennis Leahy]

Thanks Atlas! I think this is an extremely important video to share widely on social media. The truth repeated over and over might just be perceived as truth!

[turiya]

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[Bob]

Along with your post Turiya..


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